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Image Credits
Where every picture on this site comes from: the 27 images that carry a credit, with who made them, the source, and the terms they are used under.
The site draws on two kinds of imagery. The history pages use public domain, CC0, and Creative Commons material from museum and archive collections. The trip-planning pages use licensed stock photography, plus a little openly licensed material where it was the honest match.
Creative Commons material asks to be credited, so it is credited here in full, with a link to the source and the licence. The licensed stock obliges no public credit, so it is covered by the general note further down rather than photo by photo. Nothing on the site is non-commercial or no-derivatives licensed, and none of it was taken from another St. Maarten website.
A note on dates. The camera reached this island late, so several historical photographs are the oldest good image of a much older subject, and a few are undated. Where a photograph postdates the era or the moment it illustrates, the caption on the page says so.
If you hold rights to something here and want it corrected or removed, please get in touch.
The history
Archive and museum images on the history page, used under a Creative Commons licence.
1966
Bastion en gezicht op Philipsburg
Coenraad Liebrecht Temminck Groll · Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed · CC BY-SA 4.0
2025
Fort Amsterdam (Sint Maarten) 2025
Ymnes · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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2008
JB82 · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
1966
Coenraad Liebrecht Temminck Groll · Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed · CC BY-SA 4.0
1966
Coenraad Liebrecht Temminck Groll · Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed · CC BY-SA 4.0
2015
Paul Sableman · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
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Undated
Steen bij een zoutpan op Sint Maarten
Unknown photographer · KITLV / Leiden University Libraries · CC BY 4.0
circa 1913
151. St. Martin. Back street. Great Bay.
Jean Demmeni · Collectie Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (RV-A5-3-52) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Undated
Unknown photographer · KITLV / Leiden University Libraries · CC BY 4.0
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1964
Gezicht op Little Bay Hotel gezien vanaf St. Peters Hill
Boy Lawson · Collectie Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (TM-20017501) · CC BY-SA 3.0
1966
036 Philipsburg St Maarten 1966
Wilford Peloquin · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
1966
033 Philipsburg St Maarten 1966
Wilford Peloquin · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
1964
Gezicht op de zoutpannen 'Salt Pond' en de hoofdstad Philipsburg
Boy Lawson · Collectie Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (TM-20017489) · CC BY-SA 3.0
1964
Gezicht op het schiereiland Fort Amsterdam en Little Bay Hotel, gezien vanaf St. Peters Hill
Boy Lawson · Collectie Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (TM-20017525) · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Undated
Constitutional Court of Sint Maarten
MyrandaMulder · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
2011
Richie Diesterheft · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
2015
Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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7 September 2017
Hurricane Irma on Sint Maarten
Ministry of Defence, Netherlands · Ministerie van Defensie · CC BY-SA 4.0
23 November 2017
Ellamjenks · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
17 September 2017
Mariniers Sint Maarten Irma 2017
Ministerie van Defensie · Ministerie van Defensie · CC BY-SA 4.0
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2014
KLM landing at SXM, Maho Beach
alljengi · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
2025
St. Maarten Philipsburg Great Bay Boardwalk
Dr. Thomas Liptak · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
2019
David Stanley · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
2019
Thierry Pierrard · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Around the island
Photography on the area guides, beach pages, planning guides, feature articles, and the homepage.
O Sweet Saint Martin Land: The Full Story of the Island's Anthem
Church of St. Martin of Tours (Marigot)
Concord · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
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Mullet Bay Beach
Mullet Bay (after Gonzalo), St Maarten, Oct 2014
alljengi from Edinburgh · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mullet Bay (after Gonzalo), St Maarten, Oct 2014
alljengi from Edinburgh · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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The rest of the trip-planning and area photography on this site is licensed stock, selected and verified for accuracy, alongside the small amount of openly licensed material credited above.
Full sourcing records for every image are kept on file, including licence terms and purchase confirmation, and are available if a rights question ever comes up. Write to leslie@thisissxm.com.